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TIL in a survey executed by Harris Interactive, 40% of Americans believed the statement “Dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans” to be true, while another 13% were not sure about it

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EgMO7 TIL that Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.
ANWKn TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone
e0Rmb TIL there are regions in Mexico where more than 60% of the population speak only indigenous language, and not Spanish
nrk7 TIL - IBMs Watson had part of it’s memory Cleared because it learned to swear!
17JP TIL that a man was injected with Plutonium without his knowledge or consent and survived for 20 years, eventually surviving the highest radiation dose known for any human